Suspected Boko Haram gunmen have shot dead at least 39 people in an attack on a village in Borno State. The insurgents reportedly sacked the entire village of Mainok, about 50km west of Maiduguri, the state capital.
The incident took place late on Saturday, hours after a twin bomb blast killed at least 50 people in Maiduguri.
According to the BBC, lifeless bodies were still lying in front of the mosque waiting to be buried and buildings in Mainok still on fire on Sunday morning.
An eyewitness described how the attack took place: “They started shooting everywhere, they started burning all the houses in the village.
“I don’t think that there is any house that is standing in the village and they have killed at least 39 people in the village.
“These people have guns – AK47, RPGs and so on and so forth, they can come and attack anybody and kill, including women and children, they kill everybody that can see them”.
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